Mancelona and Forest Area used to be examples of how bad the Ski Valley has been. Yet both, along with Central Lake were in the playoffs last year. While only a third of the teams made the playoffs, the more than half of them had winning records. Parity is the name of the game in the Ski Valley. I expect Central Lake, Mancy and Forest Area to still be the top teams in the Ski Valley, but with 7 teams within a game of .500 the rest of the league is just to hard to figure out. I mean, it’s not impossible to see most of these teams to make a run at the top.